in reflecting on the incompetence of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) and its botch up execution of the new High Court building, memories go back to 2014. I had then petitioned the High Court against GSIDC over its substandard and chaotic concretization of the Miramar-Dona Paula Road.
While the GSIDC assured that we would get a State of the Art road, with cycling and jogging tracks etc etc, the High Court felt that we should trust the expertise of the GSIDC. The rest is history.
Now the rank deficiency in proficiency of GSIDC is at the very doorstep of the High Court for all to see. Coincidentally the same politically well connected contractor who messed up the Miramar-Dona Paula Road was also involved in our High Court cock-up. .
GSIDC having failed in project after project must now be thoroughly audited. This High Court fiasco must ensure that responsibility is fixed. The buck stops at the door of its Chairman Pramod Sawant, a post he has continued to hold even after becoming Chief Minister.
Those responsible deserve to be sacked and face the rigors of law. We need to know who at GSIDC made hay while the sun shined. Public funds must be judiciously spent and cannot be pocketed.
What has transpired in the construction of our High Court building has undoubtedly been a grand ‘daylight highway loot’.
